Month: April 2024

Frontline police officers in Hambleton have volunteered to carry a life-saving nasal spray which reverses the effects of opioid overdose. North Yorkshire Police has joined 28 other UK police forces by rolling out Naloxone to […]

A move to create a five-star touring caravan park beside a pig farm has been challenged amid claims the proposed site would have little to offer holiday-makers. Objectors to a planning application lodged with North […]

Wensleydale Railway says work to re-build a Victorian signal box is progressing well despite the bad weather this winter. The signal box at Constable Burton was originally located at Hertford East Station, but had to […]

Voters are being urged to make sure they are prepared for the first election of its kind for York and North Yorkshire to elect a mayor. The election on Thursday next week (May 2) will […]

Police say a 15-year-old girl reported missing yesterday has been found safe and well. The girl went missing from Northallerton. A spokesperson for North Yorkshire Police said: “We’re very pleased to say that she has […]

Villagers opposing a family-run holiday park’s ambition to expand over a greenfield site have questioned if the “continued erosion of the rural landscape” will ever stop. Residents of South Otterington, near Northallerton, have written to […]

A public meeting will be held next week to discuss ways of protecting the River Ure. The Association of Rural Communities is sponsoring the event in Leyburn Methodist Church Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday, April […]

A housing association has been given the go-ahead to continue running a women’s refuge and supported housing scheme for young homeless people. Broadacres has been awarded a new four-year contract, with the option of four […]

Police are appealing for information following the suspected shooting of a buzzard in the North York Moors National Park. The bird is thought to have been killed near Laskill, Bilsdale, on Thursday, April 4. Police […]